Are you ready?  We are!

The SpaceUp Houston 2012 Unconference will be held February 25-26 at the Lunar & Planetary Institute in the USRA building (just like last year).  Location information can be found here.  Many of your questions at this time can be answered via our FAQ page.  Registration for the unconference is now open.

If you haven’t heard of an unconference before please read up on what ours are like.  If you are on twitter, use the #spaceup hashtag to ask questions of people who have attended in the past.  Or read this blog post about one person’s experience at a SpaceUp Unconference.  But that’s not all. Read about How SpaceUp Works, Learn what you can do at SpaceUp Houston and read a NASA APPEL article on SpaceUp DC.

A space unconference is where participants decide the topics of the event. Everyone who attends SpaceUp is encouraged to give a talk, moderate a panel, or start a discussion. Sessions are proposed and scheduled on the day they’re given, which means the usual “hallway conversations” turn into full-fledged topics. The event will feature 8 discussion sessions held over 2 days in which 4 rooms are active for each session – that’s 32 space related discussions that you can’t get enough of.

Convinced that SpaceUp Houston is the place to be February 25-26, 2012?

Then it’s time to prepare!  What topic are you going to share with other participants?  While we don’t want you to prepare a presentation, we do want you to give the topic some thought and think about how to create a dialogue around the topic.  Perhaps your way of giving back is to give a T-5 Talk (and remember to follow the directions very carefully!)  We also will have tables set up so you can display hardware or projects that are space related.

Or maybe you’ll participate in a new way…one that hasn’t been thought of yet!

Here are the videos from last year’s unconference.